Example sentences of "[conj] on the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rioting ignited here in 1986 became so severe that on the second day President Kaunda imposed a curfew and closed all of Zambia 's borders . |
| 2 | A literal interpretation of these terms would mean that on the second rent review date what was to be assumed was a lease expiring in 2025 with rent reviews in 2005 and 2010 only , leaving fifteen years without review at the end of the hypothetical lease . |
| 3 | From the point of view of stress , the most important fact about the way we pronounce this word is that on the second syllable the pitch of the voice does not remain level , but usually falls from a higher to a lower pitch . |
| 4 | It is probably not an exaggeration to say that far more work has been published on the first type of task than on the second . |
| 5 | However , children with poor reading ability will tend to have lower spelling scores on the first occasion ( since the correlation is 0.523 ) than on the second ( for which the correlation is only 0.218 ) . |
| 6 | That slowed things down a bit and on the second day England made some progress through the wickets . |
| 7 | They provided interim employment and on the second , a further chance for Nicholson to hone his writing talents , since he both acted in it , and wrote the screenplay . |
| 8 | Lewes 's group found the track , and on the second night out stumbled on the signal lights placed by the LRDG . |
| 9 | A striking example is provided by a famous maker of astronomical instruments , Jean Fusoris , who was arrested on suspicion of treason in 1415 , during the invasion of France by Henry V. Interrogated twice in a single year , on the first occasion he claimed to be ‘ fifty or thereabouts , and on the second ‘ sixty or thereabouts ! ’ |
| 10 | And on the second day after he had departed , Gil Diaz placed the body upon a right noble saddle , and this saddle with the body upon it he put upon a frame ; and he dressed the body in a gambax of fine sendal , next the skin . |
| 11 | Twice his quarry threw him backward glances , and on the second occasion seemed to slow his pace , as if he might stop and attempt a truce , but then thought better of it and put on an extra turn of speed . |
| 12 | And on the second count , now that she 'd virtually made up her mind to visit the warehouse tonight , did she really want to discover the truth , after all … ? |
| 13 | In the House of Commons the bulk of the Labour opposition ( as well as the Liberal Democrats ) voted with the government , but on the first occasion over 50 and on the second over 30 Labour members critical of the bipartisan approach agreed by their party 's leadership voted against ( resulting in resignations from their posts by three frontbench spokespersons ) . |
| 14 | President Eisenhower , who was also a war hero , er Republican president er when he heard of Forbus 's erm actions er he er he sent federal troops to Little Rock , Arkansas , and on the second day of the school year federal troops in full combat gear , you know with , with machine guns and all the rest of it and er helmets and stuff , escorted the black children into school . |
| 15 | And on the second train from Oxford they pulled the communication cord to try to avoid us . |
| 16 | Twice Iorwerth 's warning signal had fetched them hastily to their pre-arranged places ; but on the first occasion Isambard had shunned the dripping copse and ridden away down the softer slopes eastward of Parfois , with his attendants strung out after him like beads on the string of darker green he left in the wet grass ; and on the second it had been a full-scale hunt with a dozen or more guests and very nearly fifty retainers , and Owen had held his hand , unwilling to venture against such odds . |
| 17 | er Red er Leicester , I got a lump last and there was no taste at all and on the second day , we not having a proper fridge just er , a a fridge you know keeping it in store |
| 18 | And on the second day in the morning he was happily going down this nice sunny day on the coast road er to south Wales driving away quite happily , and then suddenly and a police car came across him , came in front stopped him . |
| 19 | It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold . |
| 20 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 21 | But on the second landing I found small groups of them with machine-guns lazily overlooking the booking hall . |
| 22 | The pillar itself gave several excellent pitches on sound granite , but on the second night on the pillar the wind was so strong that Venables and Renshaw were forced to pitch their tent inside a chimney , squeezed onto a jammed block . |
| 23 | He achieved little on the first day that he spent ‘ in the field ’ but on the second day he got into conversation with a group of men about a puppy that one was carrying . |
| 24 | But on the second level , in most novels and plays there is a sequence of exposure within the literary work itself . |
| 25 | At the end of lap one , Lofthouse led Dunlop with Joey Dunlop third and Orme fourth but on the second lap Robert moved ahead of Lofthouse followed by Orme and Joey . |
| 26 | On the first tier are the figures of Adam and Eve , while on the second a fine relief of Christ 's birth is flanked by figures of the Annunciation , the presentation at the Temple and the Magi . |
| 27 | On the first measure the poor were becoming poorer , while on the second measure they were becoming richer , though not to ine same extent as the rich . |
| 28 | When is primary stress placed on the first word of the compound and when on the second ? |
| 29 | When I did the first two talks , Dawn was n't trained enough to fly , though on the second she did manage a short hop , but by the time this big lecture came along she was flying on the creance . |
| 30 | It would n't work at all with fashion lace , as on the second row there would n't be a stitch to transfer . |